scientific inquiry
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Observing | Using your five senses to gather information about the world around you.
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| Qualitative Observations | Observations made using your five senses.
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| Quantitative Observation | Observations that are based on measurements.
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| Inferences | To explain or interpret an observation using previous experience.
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| Predictions | Making an inferences about the future based on current evidence or past experiment.
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| The X Axis | Also know as the horizontal axis on a graph.
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| The Y Axis | Also know as the vertical axis.
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| Independent Variable | The one variable that is purposely changed in the test by the investigator during an experiment.
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| Controlled Variable | The variables that are kept the same or constant in an experiment.
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| Dependent Variable | The variable that is a result of the independent variable, you find at the end.
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| Uncontrolled Variable | Something that you did not anticipate or think would happen or a human error.
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| Hypothesis | Educated guess or prediction that must be testable.
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| Data Table | A way to organize information into two columns.
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| line graph | IT is a type of graph that is used when data takes place over time.
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| Bar graph | A graph used for descriptive data
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| increments | when numbering a graph, the numbers you choose are called increments
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| range | the numbers between the highest and lowest in a data set
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| The metric system | the system of measurement used by all scientists based on the number ten
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